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The turnaround on this is quick, but it's a great conference for grad students, especially those in the midwest who won't have as far to travel or want a conference with lower registration fees.</div>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Department of English at Minnesota State University, Mankato is pleased to host the (GPACW) Great Plains Alliance for Computers
and Writing conference, October 26, 2019.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">We are eager to receive proposals on a wide range of topics related to our theme of “Designing and writing for audiences: Theories,
strategies, tips, and tricks.” The <b>deadline for submission of proposals is September 27, 2019 at midnight.</b></span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">We are interested in proposals from any discipline or industry that addresses the conference theme. We especially encourage
instructors to collaborate with their graduate students and advanced undergraduate students to submit proposals for this conference. Therefore, we seek individual and panel proposals from faculty (full-time, adjunct, and teaching assistants) as well as graduate
students, and working professional writers that discuss topics such as the following:</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Teaching audience analysis in the high-school or college composition course or in the introductory technical communication course</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Writing for multiple or international audiences in industry</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Audiences in the traditional or online classroom</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Developing a sense of audience for social media</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Content management and audience analysis</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Developing and writing for personas</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Writing for (or communicating with) those who don’t want to read</span></li></ul>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Please send a
<b>250-word abstract with panel or paper proposal</b> information including title of paper(s), and name, address, email, and affiliation of presenter(s) by September 27, 2019. Panels are scheduled for one hour with reading time for individual papers/presentations
of no more than 15 minutes. We plan to notify presenters within two weeks after September 27.
<b>Send proposals via e-mail to Dr. Lee Tesdell (lee.tesdell@mnsu.edu</b></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>)</b>, Department of English, Minnesota State University, Mankato.</span></p>
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